Spend Spend Spend - Vivian Nicholson Reviews
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Newest Review: ... of Viv Nicholson when I saw a picture of her featured as a cover star on a single by The Smiths called Barbarism Begins at ... more
... Home. Nicholson is standing rather defiantly hands on hips at a grim industrial pithead in Yorkshire wearing a tiny woollen mini-dress and boots and has a suitcase on the floor next to her. It's a very iconic and arresting image and makes you eager to find out who this woman was and why she is standing in a coal mine with a suitcase dressed like that. She was in fact about to go to Malta on a spending spree and presumably taking a last look at the world she was about (or so she hoped) to leave behind. I believe that thes...more
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Spend Spend Spend is a biography by Viv Nicholson and was published in 1978. In 1961 Nicholson and her husband Keith were living with their three children in a terraced house in Castleford, Yorkshire, mainly on an apprentice miner's wage of £7 a week. She then hit the jackpot - a win on the football pools that netted over £150,000 (about £3 million in today's money apparently). Asked what she was going to do with the money by the press, the brassy Nicholson replied that she was going to 'Spend, spend, spend!' And she did. Within four years the money was gone and Keith had died in a crash behind the wheel of his Jaguar. Nicholson went through a succession of husbands who . Read the complete review
